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The Social Security tsunami: Payments could be cut by 23%, doubling the poverty rate for America's seniors

Understanding the future of Social Security, and the risks to your benefits.

Fortune · Aug 8, 2025

New York energy company ramps up disconnections as it seeks 11% price hike

Con Edison, city’s monopoly utility, cut off 88,000 households in first half of 2025 as climate crisis drives extreme temperatures

The Guardian - US · Aug 8, 2025

For Those I Love: Carving the Stone review – bracing anger at Irish social stasis

The raw grief of David Balfe’s first album may have faded to a bruise, but his spoken-word fury is as strong as ever in these hyper-focused stories of poverty and exploitation

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2025

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London councils to lose millions in funding despite high poverty levels

Ministers face backlash after analysis of proposed shake-up finds more than 10% drop in finance for some areas

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2025

FACT CHECK: Gordon Brown’s 'worse every day' warning on Scottish child poverty

“Gordon Brown warns child poverty in Scotland is getting 'worse every day' as he calls for UK Government action” ...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 7, 2025

Reeves leaves door open to gambling tax rise in autumn budget

The Chancellor said she was ‘deeply concerned’ about child poverty and the Government is taking evidence in a review of gambling taxes.

Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2025

UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown in call to scrap two-child benefit cap

The former prime minister backed reforms to gambling taxes in order to generate the £3.2bn needed to scrap the cap

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2025

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Tax gambling industry more to lift 500,000 children out of poverty, government urged

The gambling industry should pay a ‘fairer share,’ former PM Gordon Brown said

The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2025

Gordon Brown backs gambling tax reform to tackle child poverty

The IPPR said it feels ‘fair’ to ask the ‘highly profitable’ industry to contribute more.

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2025

The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty

New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2025

To what extent do people in the EU feel discriminated against in their daily lives?

Immigrants, people with disabilities and individuals at risk of poverty or social exclusion report facing more discrimination in the EU than those who do not belong to these groups.

Euronews · Aug 5, 2025

6 Reasons the Poor Stay Poor and the Middle Class Doesn’t Get Richer

Here are six factors that can prevent people from advancing up the financial ladder, regardless of whether the rungs have been kicked out.

GOBankingRates · Aug 5, 2025

In oil-rich Angola, poverty, hunger and deadly unrest over fuel price hikes

Critics say most people in Africa’s third-largest oil-producing nation have not seen benefits from that natural wealth.

Al Jazeera · Aug 5, 2025

Millions struggle to afford personal hygiene products

More than one in eight Australians are not buying personal hygiene products because they cannot afford them, a survey shows.

AAP · Aug 4, 2025

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Radio France Internationale · Aug 4, 2025

Migrants fleeing Ethiopia killed in shipwreck off Yemen coast

A shipwreck off Yemen’s southern coast has killed at least 76 people, with dozens still missing. Most of those on board were Ethiopian migrants fleeing poverty and conflict in search of work in wealthy Gulf countries.

Newslaundry · Aug 4, 2025

Explained: Why India’s inequality is underestimated

India’s consumption gap appears to shrink, but income inequality is rising fast, as per analysis of India’s consumption data by the World Bank.

The Guardian - US · Aug 1, 2025

Low-wage workers reeling over Trump’s looming Snap cuts as food prices rise

Experts predict changes to ‘food stamps’ program affecting millions of Americans will cause poverty and hunger to rise

Everybody Loves Your Money · Jul 31, 2025

10 Government Relief Programs With Hidden Income Caps

Government assistance programs can be lifelines during hard times. But not all of them are as accessible as they seem. Behind the headlines and hopeful slogans, many relief efforts have income caps that aren’t always obvious.

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The Conversation · Jul 30, 2025

8 policies that would help fight poverty in South Africa’s economic hub Gauteng

Poverty goes beyond income. It often arises when health, education and opportunities fall short of meeting people’s needs.

Woman & Home · Jul 30, 2025

Bonnie Blue, rising misogyny, and the future of sex work – is now the right time to decriminalise it?

In an era of resurging misogyny, would decriminalising sex work do more harm than good?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2025

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them

More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

The Conversation · Jul 29, 2025

Africa’s innovations are overlooked because global measures don’t fit: what needs to change

African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over the past two decades. Science, technology and innovation boost productivity, cut transaction costs, open new business opportunities and promote social inclusion. They also help societies tackle grand challenges such as climate change and persistent…

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025

Welfare cuts will still plunge thousands into poverty despite U-turn, MPs warn

There are still major changes coming for those who become disabled in the future

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2025

Tens of thousands at risk of poverty despite Labour’s benefit U-turn, MPs warn

Changes to welfare reforms not enough to protect newly sick and disabled people from financial hardship

International Business Times · Jul 29, 2025

Afghans Show Solidarity As Migrant Returns From Iran Surge

At the border with Iran, Fatima Rezaei distributes food and hygiene products to Afghans forced to return, unable to passively stand by as the deportation crisis grows.

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